Several Rochelle Hub track and field athletes outperformed their seeds Thursday evening, when the Hubs finished 10th with 18 points the IHSA 2A Rochelle Sectional.
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ROCHELLE — Several Rochelle Hub track and field athletes outperformed their seeds Thursday evening, when the Hubs finished 10th with 18 points the IHSA 2A Rochelle Sectional.
Juniors Zach Sanford and Ryan Simmons each took third in their respective events despite entering the sectional meet as sixth seeds. Sanford finished third in the shot put with a personal record of 13.82 meters, while Simmons cleared 1.77 meters for third in the high jump. Senior Oscar Aguirre set two personal records in the discus and shot put, finishing fifth in the shot put with a distance of 12.90 meters while placing sixth in the discus with a throw of 35.55 meters.
“Our kids came to compete and they did,” head coach Dale Bergeson said. “We beat a lot of our seeds during the meet… This season, we’ve had an opportunity to work with kids who came out for the first time and figure out the best positions for them to compete and get to the state meet. Our coaching staff has been together for several years and we’ve done a great job of finding talent and identifying the attributes they have so they can perform well for us.”
Rochelle’s 800-meter relay team of Luke Orlikowski, Landon DeLille, Ryan Simmons and Ethan Wells finished fifth with a time of 1:39.97. Freshman Caleb Wyssbrod took sixth in the 400-meter dash with a personal-record time of 56.04 seconds and Rochelle’s 400-meter relay team of Michael Ramsey, DeLille, Simmons and Wells placed seventh with a time of 47.19 seconds.
“I told these kids in a meeting before the sectional meet that we have a young team,” Bergeson said. “Our numbers are lower, but we had a lot of young guys who had an opportunity to compete at the sectional meet, which is something that normally doesn’t happen. This experience will help them in the future. We had freshmen through seniors competing for us and that experience is invaluable, especially for kids like Ryan and Zach who were so close.”
